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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780790748085
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0790748088
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 16, 2000
Running Time: 118 minutes
Sales Rank: 3572
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: February 12, 1964
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
John Frankenheimer's follow-up to The Manchurian Candidate is as intimate and subdued as its predecessor is flamboyant and energetic. Burt Lancaster is calm and calculating as the steely-eyed military hawk General Scott, who opposes the president's (Fredric March) plan to end the cold war with a bold nuclear disarmament plan. Lancaster's longtime friend and frequent costar Kirk Douglas is his smiling, joking right-hand man, Colonel 'Jiggs' Casey, whose easygoing manner is jolted by evidence of a possible plot to overthrow the American government. Scripted by Rod Serling from the novel by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey, the film plays much like a classic live TV drama (the medium that spawned both Frankenheimer and Serling), with the drama arising from conversations and confrontations and the action largely limited to scenes within the Pentagon and the White House. An ominous undercurrent of danger seeps through the realistic (and often real) settings of the film, conveyed chiefly through the intensity of the excellent ensemble performances. Notable among the supporting cast are Ava Gardner as a lonely Washington socialite who was once the general's mistress, Edmond O'Brien as an amiable alcoholic senator, Martin Balsam as the president's shrewd but skeptical secretary, and underrated character actor George Macready as the wily presidential advisor. --Sean Axmaker
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - A meditation of democracy
There is much to like about "Seven Days in May" as others have noted. In this comment I focus on one long scene: the confrontation between President Jordan Lyman and General James Mattoon Scott.
It is a compelling dialogue about democracy. The general is full of himself, and realized effortlessly as only Burt Lancaster could do, an under-rated actor by all but Luchino Visconti. The beleaguered president, played with enormous conviction and depth by Frederich March, still has ... Read More
Rating: - DVD-Seven Days in May
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Rating: - 7 Days in May
This is one of the great movies of the cold war era. The acting by Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglass et al is superb. One of the things that I rarely do is watch the director's clip on the making of a movie. This movie is one that you must do so. To listen to Frakenheimer describe the how he was able to get JFK's permission to film in front of the White House; the discussion about the riot scenes...well just buy the movie, you won't be sorry.
Rating: - SEVEN DAYS IN MAY
I READ THE BOOK WHEN IT WAS FIRST RELEASED. THEN I READ THE READER'S DIGEST CONDENSED VERSION. THEN I WAW THE MOVIE AT THE THEATRE WHEN IT WAS RELEASED. SEVERAL YEARS LATER I SAW THE MOVIE ON TV, AND RE-READ THE BOOK. MY NEPHEW WAS TALKING ABOUT A GOVERNMENT TAKE OVER CONSPIRACY WHEN I WAS AGAIN REMINDED OF THIS MOVIE. SO I BOUGHT IT AND IT SEEMS AS REAL TODAY AS IT WAS IN THE PAST.
Rating: - CAESAR SALAD FOR GEN. SCOTT
Army chief of staff Scott(Lancaster) is sick and tired of his Cmdr-in-Chief(March)and is going to do something about it on Preakness Sunday.Operating out of a secret base in Texas, Scott and the other Joint Chiefs are simply going to seize control of all United States communications and proclaim Scott as President.It seems to the military that President Lyman is too soft on communism and only Scott can lead the nation properly. Enter Douglas,rushing to the White House to warn the president, ... Read More
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